Time Flies (Christy Rupp)

This piece was one of the fifteen artworks commissioned for the 1996 Artscape exhibition, Celebrating Rinehart, and one of five pieces to remain on site. It was also one of four pieces funded in part by the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City to inaugurate a new Revolving Sculpture Project, whose aim was to place long-term temporary sculptures around the Maryland Institute campus. The snail that appears to be slowly climbing up the wall of the college store, weighted down by the clock mounted in its shell, was a charming and humorous addition to the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the Rinehart School of Sculpture.

Source: Kelly, Cindy, Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore: A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.